Initial "Rootedness" Discussion by Kathleen Przybylski https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd en-us 2020-11-10 01:36:21 UTC 2025-06-17 01:10:11 UTC hello@padlet.com Think of Toni Morrison's "Rootedness" as her own version of Nabokov's "Good Readers," but more of a direct guide specifically for her writing. On this Padlet, post ONE of Toni Morrison's beliefs/goals/functions of her writing. kprzybylski1 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/906730275 The hope is that by compiling and sharing this list on the discussion board, you will each reach a deeper understanding of what to look for in her writing when we start to journal. ]]> 2020-11-10 01:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/906730275 2215891 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910151919 Toni Morrison in her writing, explained that she believes there are two modes of living, in which they are to exclude and annihilate one another. ]]> 2020-11-10 19:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910151919 avery_welsch https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910152011 without the ancestor we are lost.]]> 2020-11-10 19:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910152011 2212762 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910152983 Toni Morrison believed that writing should always evoke a response from the audience. She says that the most critical part of a successful piece of writing is establishing a ¨participatory relationship" between the writer and the reader, allowing the reader to better connect, and feel what the author is saying]]> 2020-11-10 19:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910152983 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910153149 she believes that there is 2 modes to life, one is exclude and another is to annihilate each other.]]> 2020-11-10 19:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910153149 we need our past to create our future https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910153758 2020-11-10 19:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910153758 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910154217 The artist should be a part of the community that they are targeting. They should not be some kind of elevated figure.]]> 2020-11-10 19:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910154217 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910154404 In "Rootedness", Toni Morrison wrote about the novel being an adapted form of storytelling for the Black community, after the privacy of other forms, such as music, was lost and they became contemporary and widespread. Novels became another way to share messages and culture, passed down from ancestors.]]> 2020-11-10 19:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910154404 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910155145 Morrison believes that writing should be more than just writing. That you should write with a purpose. You should write about what you want and not cater to anyone else. ]]> 2020-11-10 19:12:42 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910155145 2212723 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910155279 Toni Morrison had said that there are two modes of living.]]> 2020-11-10 19:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910155279 2212081 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910156028 One of the goals for Morrison's writing is to enlighten the readers about the conflicts in the world, and suggest what problems there are. However, she doesn't want to give a solution to those conflicts. ]]> 2020-11-10 19:12:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910156028 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910156091 Toni Morrison says in "Rootedness" that "When you kill the ancestor, you kill yourself" , and that the point of her writing is to tie the past with the future ]]> 2020-11-10 19:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910156091 2215011 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910156182 "the work must be political"]]> 2020-11-10 19:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910156182 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910158210 She incorporates the ability to be both print and oral literature, or write stories that can be read in silence and heard as well. She also wants to make a connection to the reader in which they would respond like an audience at a Preacher's sermon, making the audience engage in the reading and feel something from it and build off the novel. ]]> 2020-11-10 19:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910158210 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910159568 That the best art is political art and you must make it beautiful.]]> 2020-11-10 19:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910159568 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910162109 To make the story feel oral, the reader should be able to identify the narrator without the author tell them who the narrator is]]> 2020-11-10 19:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910162109 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910162534 She believes theyre are two modes of living]]> 2020-11-10 19:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910162534 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910164579 A main goal of hers is to highlight the widespread current issues in the world and basically shed light on what is going on. ]]> 2020-11-10 19:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910164579 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910166029 Your ancestors are part of your familial history and legacy almost. Write with purpose, with influential content.]]> 2020-11-10 19:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910166029 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910169267 A goal that Toni Morrison had was that she wanted important issues that were going on around the world to be seen by people so they know what is going on.]]> 2020-11-10 19:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910169267 https://padlet.com/chsd230/cb6psbty7xhk5njd/wish/910173972 Toni Morrison says that her goal is to recreate the energy of the art of music and oral literature in novel form, as well as the informative goal of the novel. She aims to have her written words have the same effect as soulful music or a speech with the limited medium of the written word. 

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